Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama in 2016. But the nomination was delayed by McConnell, with the GOP senator arguing that a justice shouldn’t be confirmed to the bench during an election year.

Many Democrats have seized on that argument to call McConnell a hypocrite, since he said the Senate would vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee by this fall despite the midterm elections this November.

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